Illness Collection (page 2)

A touch of gout - an elderly gentleman mops his brow whilst his wife and young daughter attend to him Date: Nineteenth century

A gouty invalid angrily rings for his manservant, presumably to fetch him some more port! Date: 18th century

Victims of the Black Death plague in 1349
Victims of the Black Death Date: 1349

FAURE (1841-1899)
FRANCOIS-FELIX FAURE French statesman, dies of a sudden attack of illness 16 February 1899 Date: 1841-1899

Comic postcard, Doctor and patient Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Wife, sick husband and doctor Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Doctor and nurse, operating theatre Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Two women discuss illness Date: 20th century

Original Artwork - cartoon strip - Simply Simon ill in bed
Original Artwork for a Simply Simon cartoon strip - Simon ill in bed, trying to be a good dog. Iris Chick had a regular cartoon spot for Simon in Tail-Wagger magazine in the late 1930s

Original Artwork - Novelty Greetings card design - Medicine
Original Artwork - Novelty Greetings card design with bottle of Tonic and Prescription tag. Date: circa 1937

Postcard design - A Colds a horrid thing to get. Little girl blowing her nose with a handkerchief. Date: circa 1937

Postcard design artwork - Obey your Doctor and your Nurse. A nurse approaches a sickly child bearing a LARGE bottle of medicine. Date: circa 1937

Postcard design artwork - Get well soon. A child in bed is offered a spoonful of medicine by their pet Scottie Dog. Date: circa 1937

Postcard design artwork - Get well quick! A parent (bearing grapes) and a nurse (with a pot plant!) fussing and petting an ill young child in bed. Date: circa 1937

Postcard design - Sick child wrapped in blanket
Postcard design artwork - Young boy (possibly a little poorly) huddled up in a check blanket. Date: circa 1937

Comic postcard, Doctor visits patient, wife misunderstands Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Sea sickness in a rowing boat Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Doctor, nurse and bandaged patient Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Scotsman providing sea breezes
Comic postcard, Scotsman providing his wife with sea breezes on the cheap Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Sea sickness on a boat Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Sea sickness in a rowing boat Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Sea sickness on board ship Date: 20th century
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c. 1880s Japan - doctor and patient

Comic postcard, Steward and sick man on board ship Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man behind bars. In the Asylum - mashing barmaids. Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man behind bars. In the Asylum - picture postcard collecting. Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man behind bars. In the Asylum - betting systems. Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man behind bars. In the Asylum - Triplets. Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man behind bars. In the Asylum - Politics. Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Young woman on board ship. The Diary of a Cruise! Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Doctor visits sick man, wife misunderstands Date: 20th century

Skeleton of death aiming a dart at a Billingsgate fishwoman with a basket on her head. Death and the Fishwoman. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Joshua Gleadah after an illustration by

Ernest Bevin giving speech at East Woolwich
Ernest Bevin giving a speech to socialist workers at his East Woolwich constituency after a period of illness. Continuing as foreign secretary

Advert for Milton against influenza 1918
Advertisement for Milton sterilising fluid, recommended for preventing and relieving influenza at a time when Spanish flu was rapidly spreading across the world. 1918

Cartoon, Wilson Barrett and G R Sims, Called Back
Cartoon, Called Back. Wilson Barrett (left), actor, manager and playwright - Glad to have you back, Mr Sims. George Robert Sims (right), English journalist, poet, dramatist and novelist

Cartoon portrait, Mr J H Stead
Cartoon portrait, James Hurst Stead (1828?-1886), comic singer, music hall performer. Disabled: Now is the time to give him a helping hand

Scene in a doctors waiting room, London. 1892

Reporters waiting for news of Queen Victoria 1901
Reporters outside Osborne House waiting for news on the illness of Queen Victoria. 1901

Outside gates of Buckingham Palace during Queens illness
Day after day anxious people came to read the bulletins outside the gates of Buckingham Palace during the illness of Queen Victoria. 1901

The Death of Sachem Wamsutta
The funeral of Pokanoket Sachem Wamsutta, known as Alexander to the English colonists; he had died of an illness considered suspicious by his people

Owl doctor and robin patient on a Christmas card
Owl doctor and robin patient on a Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1880s

Ursula Mordant in A School of Life
Ursula Mordant in a Lunatic Asylum - illustration to A School of Life by Anna Mary Howitt, author and artist. circa 1855

Poster, The British public is not to be sneezed at
Ministry of Health poster, The British public is not to be sneezed at -- coughs and sneezes spread diseases -- use your handkerchief to trap the germs and prevent droplet infection. circa 1950s

Advert for Mellins Emulsion 1895
Mellins Emulsion, medicine for children and adults to help with coughs, colds and bronchitis. 1895

The Great Plague of London
Two men holding handkerchiefs over their noses in an attempt to avoid catching the plague as they hurry through the London Streets

Patent Electropathic Battery Belt for men and women

Advert for Harness Electropathic Corset Belts 1895
Every man & woman in search of heath & strength, all sufferers from disorders of the nerves, stomach, liver or kidneys should procure and wear. Date: 1895

Crowds outside Buckingham Palace, London 1902
Date: June 1902

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